Physical Science
What are the three states of Matter?
What color EM wave do plants leaves reflect?
What is green light?
What is the process called where rocks change from one kind of rock to another?
What is the rock cycle?
What is the boundary where two plates collide?
What is a Convergent Boundary?
What is needed to create a simple electromagnet?
What is a Ferromagnetic material (iron, nickel, cobalt), wrapped in a wire, with an energy source (a battery).
Casey is given a sample mixture containing calcium carbonate, glucose, iron filings, and silica sand. Which of the materials could be separated out with a magnet?
What are iron filings?
What discovery did Charles Darwin make on the Galapagos Islands?
Ground water is stored in this.
What is an aquifer?
What is it called when two plates move away from each other?
What is a divergent boundary?
What is the breaking down of rocks?
What is Weathering?
Which one of Newton's Laws states that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest until an opposing force acts upon it?
What is Newton's first law of motion? (Or Law of inertia)
If two different organism share a similar bone structure and DNA, scientists infer that they also share a _______________________________.
What is a common ancestor?
Seismic waves in the ocean cause _____________.
What is a tsunami?
What is the most typical boundary where earthquakes occur?
What is a transform boundary?
What slows or stops the flow of electric energy?
What is an insulator?
What is it called when an organism maintains stable internal conditions?
What is homeostasis?
A scientists finds a marine fossil in the desert, what does this suggest?
What is that the land was once covered in water?
What era are we currently in according to the Geologic Time Scale?
What is the Cenozoic era?
The most active volcanoes are located here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What type of rock is formed from extensive heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic rock?
Altering an organisms DNA is part of which branch of science?
What is biotechnology?
Based on an organisms _____________________, scientists have organized them into different categories within the classification system.
What is physical characteristics/structures?
The earth is in a straight line with the moon and sun, what kind of tide will be experienced?
what is a spring tide?
What type of seismic waves do not move in liquid?
What is an S wave?
The dropping off of weathered rock at the end of erosion.
What is deposition?